Authority: IC 25-15-9-8

Affected: IC 25-15-4-2; IC 25-15-4-3

Sec. 1. (a) The one (1) year experience requirement for licensure as a funeral director provided for by IC 25-15-4-3(b)(6) may only be satisfied during the period of time that the applicant has been licensed as a funeral director intern.

(b) The successful completion of a funeral director internship must include the following:

1. (1) Working in a funeral home under the direct supervision of a licensed funeral director for at least one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours over a period of at least one (1) year.
2. (2) Assisting in the embalming of at least twenty-four (24) bodies.
3. (3) Assisting in the arrangement, services, and disposition of at least twenty-four (24) bodies.

(c) Upon expiration of a funeral director intern license issued under IC 25-15-4-2, the holder may extend the license for an additional one (1) year by paying the funeral director intern license fee and otherwise meeting the requirements of IC 25-15-4-2.

(State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service; 832 IAC 3-2-1; filed Jan 30, 1986, 2:23 p.m.: 9 IR 1368; filed Mar 13, 1987, 8:30 a.m.: 10 IR 1701; filed Oct 12, 1988, 3:55 p.m.: 12 IR 589; filed Jan 8, 1989, 9:45 a.m.: 12 IR 1388; readopted filed May 10, 2001, 2:39 p.m.: 24 IR 3236; readopted filed Jul 19, 2007, 12:52 p.m.: 20070808-IR-832070048RFA; filed Mar 11, 2013, 2:50 p.m.: 20130410-IR-832120198FRA; readopted filed Nov 25, 2013, 9:23 a.m.: 20131225-IR-832130288RFA; filed Dec 22, 2014, 3:42 p.m.: 20150121-IR-832140182FRA; readopted filed Nov 27, 2019, 3:13 p.m.: 20191225-IR-832190184RFA)